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Microsoft released a near-final version of its software for building e-commerce sites and renamed the product Commerce Server 2007, from Commerce Server 2006, although it says it will still ship roughly on time in August.

A customer at electronics store Best Buy might not recall purchasing Shania Twain's CD Come on Over back in 1997, but the $25 billion retailer certainly does.

IBM on Monday announced that a slew of partners have signed up to support its new Workplace Client Technology. The Workplace Client is a rich client platform designed to ease management of and access to a variety of applications.

In the late 90s the Australian IT industry saw an influx of obscurely named companies with niche applications. These companies usually originated in the UK or US, were often housed in fancy, serviced offices and had an aura of being well-accomplished. Certainly some were. Others didn’t get a chance as they were gobbled up by larger IT companies or retreated from the region. So where are these vendors now; are their customers in need of someone to pick up the pieces from the overnight sensation that some of these companies tapped into?

When a high roller steps into a Harrah's casino, the host -- whose job is specifically to look after such top players -- is likely to ask about his wife by name, tell him his suite has been stocked with his favorite brand of cigars and slip him tickets to that week's PGA golf tournament.

IBM Corp. Tuesday announced product upgrades and partnerships in support of its pervasive computing strategy, an ongoing effort to provide end users with on-the-fly access to any content, from any device, on any network.

Worldwide spending on software will increase 3.5 percent this year to US$76.1 billion from US$73.5 billion in 2002, with buyers still cautious when spending their software budgets, Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc. said Monday.

Even if you don't expect your company's Web site to contribute a substantial percentage of corporate revenue, it can still be a key strategic channel.

Saying they aim to make computers more portable, intuitive and easy-to-use, a group of industry stalwarts formally launched Motion Computing Monday, with plans to unveil the new company's first tablet PC prototype at the TechXNY trade show next month.

Blue Martini Software on Monday will announce Blue Martini Retail, an in-store customer intelligence product that gives retailers the ability to offer personalized promotions to patrons on the checkout line.

Blue Martini Software Inc. this week detailed Blue Martini Manufacturing, a suite of CRM (customer relationship management) applications that enables manufacturers to automate business processes and deploy customer and partner self-service portals.